tprophet

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by tprophet 4y ago
The amount of personal investment I have in an organization is directly tied to my personal upside. If it's my own company (I have run two startups) then I live and breathe it. If it's a Fortune 500 company or the government or wh
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by tprophet 9y ago
I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of press (and certainly blog) articles are written without actually talking to anyone; they're based on public information and--at most--email requests. If the founders were doing the ri
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by tprophet 9y ago
They do - their ToS. And it appears to put all liability on the passenger. They haven't substantively addressed reasonable and fair questions around this.
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by tprophet 9y ago
Relax, I'm not going after you - this is part of a broader conversation. :)
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by tprophet 9y ago
There is no technical issue here preventing a clear answer due to 140 character limits. These guys had my email address and could have sent a detailed response. Instead, they sent a short (but clear) one. If they actually wanted a phone int
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by tprophet 9y ago
As a startup founder myself, I don't take writing a negative post about another startup lightly. That being said, I always reserve the right to blog about anything I think is interesting or important to my readers, and this subject mee
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by tprophet 11y ago
- Not clear on the difference between you and a collection agency. - Do you guys report to Dun and Bradstreet? - What's the difference between the free and $5 friendly call? - When you do "the firm" call, that sounds vaguely
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by tprophet 11y ago
One potential issue is one we're very cognizant of here in Hollywood: being typecast. We considered this carefully before deciding to make our video public. Keep in mind, we're a very early stage company. Our video reflects that,
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by tprophet 11y ago
We found out about this at the last minute, already had the video, and didn't have enough time to make new demos and videos. So, YC got the same video we submitted for TC Disrupt. Note that startups apply for a _lot_ of stuff, and we h